I can see i was being unclear: i wish to replace my analysis in excel with analysis in python.
I am fairly sure i am querying the FRED API, but i am unsure how to _access and use_ the dict objects that it is returning. For example, how would i just print out values? Thanks for your help On 24/02/2013, at 9:12 AM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > >> I am trying to make a move from excel to python. My main need is > >> economic data -- to do economic analysis. > > If you say Python and Excel the first thing that comes to mind is the xlrd > package > > <snip> > >> The end game for me is making plots of variables, combining them, and >> doing regressions -- i cannot see how i might take what i'm getting >> from these FRED / Python dicts to actual data analysis. >> >> Could someone please help me take these first steps? > > I'm not familiar with the Fred package. Pandas (http://pandas.pydata.org/) > seems to be perfect for what you're doing. It's an R-like layer on top of > numpy. It can be used to read Excel and many other formats and it works well > with matplotlib. It's a cool tool to manipulate/massage/munge data, then > analyze it (though R has still more, often ueber-exotic, stats). Its origin > lies in the analysis of... economic data. Best used with IPython. > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
